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How a Kentucky grifter and his partner pulled off one of the era's most spectacular scams -- until a dedicated man of science exposed their scheme
The corps begins its epic journey
Momentous or merely memorable
For the dedication of a new World War II memorial on the Mall, the Smithsonian will stage a four-day festival of reminiscence
As America's first black military pilots, Tuskegee airmen faced a battle against racism
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One hundred fifty years ago, the Kansas-Nebraska Act set the stage for America's civil war
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In 1908, an improbable pair of music men hit a tuneful home run without ever having seen a game
Who built them and why? An amateur archaeologist tries to get to the bottom of some astonishing structures in Tibet and Sichuan Province, China
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An artifact from the doomed ocean liner evokes that catastrophic night in April 1912
A Vietnam War protester recalls a seminal '60s image, part of a new book celebrating French photographer Marc Riboud's 50-year career
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From our archives: How the republic’s troubled history set the stage for future discord and a possible new Cold War
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John Lee Hancock's epic re-creation of the 1836 battle between Mexican forces and Texas insurgents casts the massacre in a more historically accurate light
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Since the Smithsonian's earliest days, the help of volunteers has been essential
Going where few cartographers have gone before, the expedition members hope to find a river that will carry them all the way to the Pacific Ocean
Rockefeller Center symbolizes the heart of Manhattan
The first shipment of botanical specimens sent to President Jefferson contained the seeds of thousands of miles of fences
After such knowledge, what forgiveness?
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Defenders of honor or shoot-on-sight vigilantes? Even in 19th-century America, it was hard to tell
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Retracing the route of captured American and Filipino soldiers on the Bataan Peninsula in World War II, the author grapples with their sacrifice
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